Improvement in harvesting-machines



A. MILLER.

V HARVESTING MACHINE. No'.18z,03o. Patented Sept. 12, 1876.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AARON MILLER, OF BROOKPORT, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT lN HARVESTING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 182,030, dated September 12, 1876; application filed April '7, 1876.

To all'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AARON MILLER, of

Brockport, Monroe county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improve-i ment in Harvesting-Machines, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings.

The object of this invention is to give firmness to the finger-bar and platform of harvesting-machines; and this I obtain by constructing a tubular finger-bar with flanges on two sides, the flanges being for the purpose of fastening the guards and platform to the bar.

ing the front edges together; or the bars, after being formed as shown at Fig. 4, may be heated and passed through rollers and Welded, as shown at Fig. 3.

When the grain-wheel is placed at some distance in the rear of the fin ger-bar in a harvesting-machine there is a twisting strain or torsion to the finger-bar, and an unsteady vibratin g motion to the platform. This tubular form being given to the finger-bar imparts strength to resist torsion and give steadiness to the platform.

I claim as my invention- A tubular finger-bar having flanges projecting from the front and rear thereof, substantially as described. AARON MILLER.

Witnesses:

MINER F. MILLER, MILTON H. (300mm. 

